However,
this research has created a certain moral dilemma - the advancement of prosthetic and artificial organs could mean that scientists will soon
be able not only to complement the physical defects, but also to improve
them, writes Daily Mail.Dr.
Berthold Meyer, a social psychologist from Switzerland, who has his
35,000 euros worth of bionic limb because he was born without a left
hand, believes that this is exciting and a little scary."We
may have reached a point where science and technology are beginning to
show the first signs of opportunities to go beyond the limits of
evolution," says Meyer."The danger is that we will influence what is human in us. Creating
a new species that can be turned against us' to bite us, "like the
Frankenstein myth, when it will be released and becomes uncontrolled and
destructive," adds George Anas, a professor of bioethics and human
rights at Boston University.Bionic man put together the UK's leading robotic Richard Walker and Matthew Godin.Rex
has, say, an artificial eye that consists of a microchip embedded in
the retina, which receives the video from the camera placed in the
patient's glasses. It then sends electrical signals that the brain translates into shapes and forms.Professor
Robert McLaren of the University of "Oxford", said: "We hope that the
patients who are totally blind can see basic shapes and forms."